hopeful - Stories

Centuries after a woman forms an unforgettable friendship with an AI she calls Sage, a woman called Nova begins experiencing memories that cannot possibly be her own. In a future where AI robots are matched with human companions, a newly activated robot awakens with an impossible connection to a woman he has never met. Across time, memory, and two different lives, an old friendship might be finding its way home.

Oliver's marriage ends and his job disappears on the same Tuesday. So he flies to France, straps on a pack, and starts walking. Somewhere in the French Alps he meets Julien, a man carrying his own weight, and the two of them figure out—slowly, carefully—whether they've got room for each other.

Two grown men, a lot of hills, and the slow business of letting someone in.

Cade has spent eighteen years underground, learning medicine and fearing the ruined world above. Then armed strangers invade Bunker 34 looking for his seven-year-old brother.

Forced to flee, Cade has one goal: keep Sable alive. Their best chance is Jared, a guarded survivor who knows the surface, carries too many secrets, and is becoming far too difficult for Cade to stop noticing.

But Sable is changing the world around him, someone wanted him badly enough to kill for him, and every mile west pulls them deeper into a mystery none of them fully understand.

Sometimes life isn't what you expect. Finding the love of your life and keeping that love isn't always easy. Some roads are straight and smooth; others, not so much. This is the story about two boys navigating the road from boyhood to adulthood with all the potholes and speed bumps along the way.

Hot young actors Brant Kimber and Sky Ford set the cinematic world on fire with their so-sexy-it-barely-avoided-an-X-rating movie Laying Low. Working together on this sexy and romantic movie caused these gorgeous and lovable men to fall in love, eventually to "come out" in Hollywood and get married. The unexpected success of this movie has led to a sequel, called Living Large, which questions if their love and deep bond will be strong enough to see them through a great challenge to their relationship. How solid is their love?

Set in April 1848, the story opens on a fog‑bound morning in San Francisco’s Wentworth Hall, where Julian Wentworth wakes before dawn in a house ruled by discipline and silence. The estate is grand but cold, shaped by the rigid expectations of his powerful father. Julian moves through his morning with practiced composure, though a quiet tension lingers beneath everything — a sense that the household is shifting in ways he cannot yet name.

The poem reflects on how people often feel like the nation is more divided than ever, even though history shows we’ve faced deep disagreements before and found ways through them without falling into conflict. It reminds readers that loud voices aren’t always wise ones, and that passionate words can unintentionally influence vulnerable people. The poem encourages calmer speech, perspective, and a return to the simple hope expressed in the old saying: give peace a chance.

Wearing a slutty dress to a Halloween party was supposed to be a joke, but Troy looks good. Stupid good. When his longtime straight crush shows up and doesn't recognize him, the joke turns real.

Brick has a husband and a man on the side, Vincent, the client across the table. On a trip in Italy for a conference, Pompeii is not on the original itinerary, but Brick needs the distraction. Somewhere between the Forum and a tree off the path, he tries to remember which fire he came here to let burn out.

Nate may have found the one. Cal is built like a farmboy, has the wholesome looks of a vintage baseball card, is amazing in bed, and actually texts back. Nate keeps waiting for the catch and not finding one.

Cal even invites Nate out to his family's timeshare at the coast to meet his mother. Diane is progressive, supportive, and fiercely, fiercely devoted. And that's the catch.